Scientific Attitude In Relation To Critical Thinking among Teachers

Scientific attitude helps to tackle problem objectively without bias promoting logical thinking. It is the “scientific spirit” or “scienticism” which creates rational outlook. A person accepts whatever is based on scientific background. Scientific approach is progressive, such a person is never too certain of his facts and ready to accept truth on the basis of empirical data, encourages systematic doubts and critical thinking. Critical thinking is self-guided, selfdisciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. He works diligently to develop the intellectual virtues of intellectual integrity, intellectual humility, intellectual civility, intellectual empathy, intellectual sense of justice and confidence in reason. He avoids thinking simplistically about complicated issues and strives to appropriately consider the rights and needs of relevant others. The study had been conducted on teachers of Mohali district of Punjab through descriptive research. Findings revealed that there had been significant difference among the male and female teachers on scientific attitude and critical thinking favoring the female teachers; signifying more scientific attitude and critical thinking than their male counterparts. Both the variables signified positive co-relation meaning that there is strong co-relation between two variables signifying the dependency of one on the other.